I've done salvia a number of times (chewing method, not smoking) and it was awesome. One time the words in my chat program were protruding out of the screen and (of course) would vanish when they hit the top of the screen. I kept spamming my friends on IRC asking "who owns the box?" (my monitor) "where do they go??" and saying "we need to let them be free instead of trapping them in the box".

Another time, I closed my eyes for about 15 seconds and in that span, I was inside the original Mario Bros. video game for the NES and it went in super-super-super-fast-forward and I beat the game as Mario and still understood every bit of every level.

Still another time, I lay down on my back and look up at my ceiling (normal square ceiling tiles) and they turned into glowing hexagons of roughly the same size as they were, interlocked, with the borders radiating and pulsing inward while changing colors throughout the rainbow.

I've done it a number of times and never had a bad experience. Also important to note: I've never done any other hallucinogens. No shrooms, acid, LSD, nothing.

I researched salvia ahead of time, figured out the best likely starting dose, mostly kept it close to that, and followed the guidelines given for optimal experience. No loud music, no needlessly-distracting environment, just a quiet area to focus and relax.

I don't know man, I smoked salvia extract in Amsterdam, my entire existence was reduced to being a roof. And I was perfectly fine with that. It felt like years, but only lasted for 10 minutes according to my tripsitter.

What is the thing with salvia and objects. I was a couch for an eternity and I was perfectly fine with it. I hid the salvia when I sobered up though, because I thought it was some kind of divine being, that was going to kill me. Forgot where I put it and found it 2 weeks later again, but I put the baggy with salvia out of my sight, so this wouldn't happen again.

I was in Santa's work shop with toy soldiers.. Before consumption I had put this very nice vase/lamp on the floor where it was not in the way.. I woke up tangled in its power chord and my friend like, idk if I should do that. Lmao

Never done salvia personally, but my friends who have tell me that it's the hallucinogen most likely to cause a bad trip. Luckily, it's also a relatively brief one (the main high only lasts about 5 minutes, compared to several hours for shrooms or LSD).

Salvia is crazy. The first time I smoked it I saw this dimly lit concrete wall grow leopard print patterns and laughed uncontrollably for four minutes trying to describe it to my friends. The second time I took a bigger hit and everything started to rotate and looked like those photo collages where thousands of tiny images make up one large image (in this case the large image was the real world). Two kids we knew walked by and my buddy told me they were made out of sugar. I wholeheartedly agreed.

On acid and mushrooms you are still very much within your own mind and aware of your own consciousness, but salvia is an insane ego destroying three minute trip through the universe where you may or may not exist. Scary stuff if you ask me.

I know what you mean and I may have misphrased or used the wrong word for what I'm describing. In my experience with salvia, if you have a big enough hit your consciousness is just...gone. You yourself no longer exist and are a conduit for sensory and thought experiences for the duration of the trip (usually 2-3 minutes).

I've never felt like I don't exist on mushrooms or acid, not even close.

I did it once, but a small amount. It was fun, I laughed ad stuff and it wore off.

I did more on my next time and it's not like I thought "I don't exist!". But.. It's like I didn't think of self. I saw an image of the planet earth, within it was 3 categories. All crudely placed was green (nature) blue (water. For some reason that was separate from nature in my mind) and concrete structures and cities.

No definition or inclination was given from my trip. I just say this ball with 3 different colors describing what the earth is made of for some reason??

But in all of that, I was just another speck. Not that I didn't exist, but just a speck where there were countless specks. I didn't matter. I existed but didn't matter.

First time I did salvia (quite weak and old so not very potent) I tried to explain to my friend what it was like my words became book cases that fell over like dominos and I giggled like a little schoolgirl because it made my brain tickle.

Best story I heard though was a friend of mine's head shop owner who tested his wares. He took a really strong hit of salvia and lived out what he thought was 10 years as a 40-something man with a wife and kids and afterwards could recall and retell memories from this said man. Not actually 10 year's worth of memories though, but to him it really felt like 10 years had gone by. It had him fucked up for a while.

As a plant guy, the place I work sells multiple types and colors of salvia. And apparently they have made sure to make hybrids of the plants they sell to us as well as a few varieties of sage that contain hallucinogens inside them. So people can't abuse the plant for that. Kind of strange.

Salvia is some messed up crap. Had a friend come over once and smoke some in my backyard while I was gardening and he's just chilling on my garden bench. Next thing I know Im being tackled like he was a linebacker( and he was 5'9 maybe 110 dripping wet- skinny skinny kid). Fighting him off was ridicuously hard and he kept clawing at my eyeballs. When he came out of it he said he thought I was a bear. I said and so you see a bear and decide to TACKLE it? Good grief hed be so dead IRL.